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Lot 1007

A Pair of Chinese Blue and White Porcelain "Double Happiness" Vases

Lot Details & Additional Photographs
20th century, each of baluster form rising to a flared trumpet neck, porcelain hand painted in underglaze blue with scrolling floral vines enclosing a central vertical panel of stylized auspicious Chinese characters, below a band of flowering plants and above a lappet border at the foot, the necks are flanked by pairs of faux handles of a mother and baby foo lion, the rim is decorated with a key-fret border, a lovely auspicious pair.

Each 23 1/2 x 9 x 9 in.

Private Collection, Aiken, South Carolina

Both with a few firing cracks and some separation to handles; otherwise good estate condition.